Grounded...

Here's a question for you.  What do you get if you send your Miss Mouses, your Kitties, Ponies and Fairys all over Europe keeping Cheese and Fish customers connected to the Suppliers?  

Answer?  A big travel bill.

The boss, Edie, has discovered that her forecast travel budget of £12.82 has been somewhat exceeded and I am therefore grounded.  In some ways a travel ban is no bad thing, I no longer have a permanent suitcase in my room (well I do, but only because I'm too lazy to put it away), my working day has more or less dropped to a normal 9-5 (and a bit, at either end)and I am not spending my life running after cancelled planes, sitting in wet patches or being rescheduled.  I more or less know where I am and where I will be and I get to spend a lot of time in my home office, which is great as I sometimes don't brush my whiskers until lunchtime.

But in other ways - well - oh I know it makes sense but I have spent a lot of time building up my relationships with the Miss Mooses and the Farmers and the Cheese Suppliers and because of this, I can do it all by telephone very easily but, oh there is something about looking each other in the eye and shaking paws. A big part of what I have been doing is about meeting new people and creatures and working together to make something that doesn't work very well, work a whole lot better.  I looked all of this up in the dictionary and it took me ages, but it came up with 'job satisfaction'.

And I miss airports and funny hours and drinking a lot of coffee. I miss waking up seeing the Malmo skyline.  I miss sitting out in the square with a blanket on my knee and a heater next to me in the middle of Winter just watching the world go by.  After all, I am a travelling Mouse. What will become of my little blog if 'The Adventures of a Travelling Mouse' are now reporting my ventures to the Supermarket for extra cheese rations?  I will have to think of another title, perhaps 'The Adventures of SuperMouse'.

Actually that makes me think of a holiday I took this Summer with the boss, Edie, and her Big People.  Edie made me a cape and a headband and let me be SuperMouse for the entire stay in a tent. It was a very big tent and the wind and rain were very bad.  I think it's only my SuperMouse powers that stopped the tent from blowing away.

I also went cycling - maybe I will tell you all a bit about that in my next blog!

In the meantime I will keep my feet on the ground, my paws on the keyboard, and a bit of my heart in Sweden.

Saluting you!
Mouse xx